On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 08:30 -0400, David Hampton wrote: > > 1) What does "Renumber subaccount" do? > > It rewrites the account codes for all children of the current account. > For example, you have the following account structure: > > Code Name > > 10 Colors > 10-1 -Red > 10-2 -Orange > 10-3 -Yellow > 10-4 -Blue > 10-5 -Violet > > You now need to add the "Green" account, but you want it to sort between > the Yellow and Blue accounts. Instead of having to manually renumber > all the accounts starting with Blue, you can use the "renumber > subaccount" command on the Colors account. In the popup dialog the > prefix value should default to "10", the account code for the colors > account. If you set an interval value of 5 and click "Renumber" you > will end up with the following account structure: > > 10 Colors > 10-05 -Red > 10-10 -Orange > 10-15 -Yellow > 10-20 -Blue > 10-25 -Violet > > Now you have room in the account code numbering space to add the Green > account with an account code to force the proper ordering. > > 10 Colors > 10-05 -Red > 10-10 -Orange > 10-15 -Yellow > 10-18 -Green > 10-20 -Blue > 10-25 -Violet >
Fantastic explanation - too good to leave just in the archives, with your permission I'd like to include it in either Help or the Tutorial/Concept Guide. I have never used account codes so had no idea. > > 3) Where is the text that is displayed as additional help in the > > "setting preferences" windows? > > I would like to use some of it in the "help" document. I've done a > > search for the text string, but did not find them. > > All the text in the preferences window comes from glade files. > Christian's suggestion re: PO files gave me pointers. Thanks > > 5) Has anything significant changed in the Tax Report section? Where did > > all those codes came from? All the Tax references in "TXF Export - > > Known Anomalies and Limitations" seem to be "really old", are there > > updates? Is anyone on the Intuit TXF list? > > I've checked the TXF site and there hasn't been an updated document > posted in years. > Either means nothing has changed or there are no "available" standards. My latest version of Q* is 04 and that is the next to last change date in the TXF041 file, latest is 6/06 "to remove personal information". I'm just not going to worry about that section for awhile. Thanks again, Dave _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
